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NYC settles suit by abused foster kids for $9.7M
http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php?id=19185394&ps=1011&cat=&cps=0&lang=en
NEW YORK (AP) New York City will pay $9.7 million to settle a lawsuit by 10 disabled people who were fraudulently adopted by a woman and claimed they were repeatedly abused, starved and imprisoned in a "house of horrors," city officials announced Thursday.
The lawsuit was filed in 2009 in Brooklyn federal court on behalf of the children whom Judith Leekin, 67, adopted over an eight-year period ending in 1996.
The suit charged that Leekin was able to carry out a scam in which she fraudulently collected $1.68 million in adoption subsidies because the city's Administration for Children's Services didn't do its job................
All of Leekin's children are now adults and living in Florida.
The suit said Leekin fostered at least 22 children. One is missing and presumed dead................
http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php?id=19185394&ps=1011&cat=&cps=0&lang=en
NEW YORK (AP) New York City will pay $9.7 million to settle a lawsuit by 10 disabled people who were fraudulently adopted by a woman and claimed they were repeatedly abused, starved and imprisoned in a "house of horrors," city officials announced Thursday.
The lawsuit was filed in 2009 in Brooklyn federal court on behalf of the children whom Judith Leekin, 67, adopted over an eight-year period ending in 1996.
The suit charged that Leekin was able to carry out a scam in which she fraudulently collected $1.68 million in adoption subsidies because the city's Administration for Children's Services didn't do its job................
All of Leekin's children are now adults and living in Florida.
The suit said Leekin fostered at least 22 children. One is missing and presumed dead................
